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Our new mishnah states: One who has ownership of a garden located beyond the garden of another, and also has access rights to it, may enter his garden only at a time when it is usual for people to enter, and may leave only at a time when it is usual for people to leave.
In the case of one who had a public thoroughfare passing through his field, and he appropriated it and instead gave the public an alternative thoroughfare on the side of his property, the halakha is that the thoroughfare that he gave them, he gave them, and they may use it.
We explore the parable of the King’s garden within a garden used by the Mechilta to explain why the reed sea resisted Moshe’s initial command to split fleeing only when the divine appears.